Challenging the “Permanent War Industry”
Despite significant human improvements in so many countries in the last few hundred years the drive for war and violence on a mass scale persists. To…
New book gives great insight into the horrors of war
By Amir Haidari The latest book by renowned journalist Chris Hedges gives us an incredible account of the victims of wars and the horrors they…
The importance of monitoring civilian losses
In late 2002, US journalist Helen Thomas strongly opposed the impending invasion of Iraq. Unlike many of her colleagues, whom she regarded as having a groupthink…
A world of no-go zones?
As the population of our ‘global village’ grows to more than 7.22 billion and mega-cities multiply, the world’s wilderness withers, agricultural land shrinks, oceans become waste…